There is more information about the reason for this here^1 Below is an excerpt > As in Non-recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale, we can bu

There is more information about the reason for this here^1 Below is an excerpt > As in Non-recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale, we can build a better make. This commit mostly imitates Shake as described there, but in a Racket style and called "Zuo" (based on the Chinese word for "make"). The Zuo implementation started at https://github.com/mflatt/zuo https://github.com/mflatt/zuo, but here it's in the intended long-term home, racket/src/zuo. > The goal is for Racket to be be just as easy for end-users to build as now after converting scripts from make and /bin/sh to zuo. So, make should work in Racket's top-level directory, and configure plus make plus make install should work in a source directory or distribution, all with no new pre-installed packages required. The new makefiles will be small, however, just ensuring that the zuo executable is built and then handing off to Zuo scripts. 1. https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/4179 https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/4179